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121Raised floor — A suction cup tile lifter has been used to remove a tile …
122Progressive collapse — A building undergoes progressive collapse when a primary structural element fails, resulting in the failure of adjoining structural elements, which in turn causes further structural failure, similar to a house of cards. Contents 1 Timeline of… …
123cell — cell1 cell like, adj. /sel/, n. 1. a small room, as in a convent or prison. 2. any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a whole. 3. a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization: a local cell of the… …
124Direct tension indicator — Direct Tension Indicators, or DTIs, are single use mechanical load cells used to illustrate when adequate tension has been achieved in structural fastener assemblies.[1] The Standard for DTIs in North America is the ASTM International series of… …
125Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco — San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge (eastern span replacement) Artistic rendition of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge seen from Treasure Island (ca. 2014) Official name To be determ …
126Aeroelasticity — is the science which studies the interaction among inertial, elastic, and aerodynamic forces. It was defined by Collar in 1947 as the study of the mutual interaction that takes place within the triangle of the inertial, elastic, and aerodynamic… …
127steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …
128Strength of materials — Internal force lines are denser near the hole, a common stress concentration In materials science, the strength of a material is its ability to withstand an applied stress without failure. The applied stress may be tensile, compressive, or shear …
